Is the Constitution Still a Thing?? With Ilya Shapiro
Show notes
Ilya Shapiro is a senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute and briefly, but not insignificantly, the executive director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution.
Naturally, we bring him in to talk about Legally Blonde, which Baldwin Brother is the hottest (clearly Billy), and fine, the commerce clause.
Follow Ilya’s work on his Substack Shapiro’s Gavel, but his book Lawless: The Miseducation of America’s Elites – An Insider's Account of Institutional Weakness and the Transformation of Law Schools, and of course check him out on X, where it all began…
Also:
Ilya identifies as “Trans-Sephardic”
What kind of russian doesn't like pickles??
Ilyan really wants to talk about the commerce clause - but we want to talk about mayonnaise.
The Federalist Papers are the Talmud of the constitution
Shapiro V Georgetown
Never tweet and then go to bed
How badass is it to publish your resignation letter in the Wall Street Journal?
Yael gets quizzed for her citizenship test
Unfortunately we ran out of time to talk about the commerce clause, but we did have time to hear why Alec Baldwin flipped Ilya the double bird.
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